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Determine Flash availability with JSP

Basically, I need to swap a JSP form with a Flash form should the user have it installed. I know there is a JavaScript option, but don't want to use this as that cuts out people who have Flash but not JavaScript. Can't find anything for it online, I'm sure it can't be too difficult, any ideas? Some code would be jubbly if possible :) ...

How to handle Unhandled #2044 errors from Flash tilelist when changing dataprovider?

Hi all - I have a tilelist component using a custom ImageCell based item renderer. I know that at times some of the images it is trying to retrieve will not be found and I am able to handle this via an IEOrror listener on the custom ImageCell loader. However, if I set the data provider, then it is changed before all images have comple...

Focus Out event for TLFTextField

Hi Everyone, I'm having an issue where I don't get a "FOCUS_OUT" event called when I click around the stage. I do get the "FOCUS_IN" event when I click the TLFTextField. Not sure what the problem may be, any hints or ideas would be great. I did already do some Google searches, but didnt quite find anything useful. Here is some of the c...

Interact with Flash using Python Mechanize

I am trying to create an automated program in Python that deals with Flash. Right now I am using Python Mechanize, which is great for filling forms, but when it comes to flash I don't know what to do. Does anyone know how I can interact with flash forms (set and get variables, click buttons, etc.) via Python mechanize or some other pytho...

drop down menu over a flash file

Hi. I am using a drop down menu, with all its code written in .js file. I have a flash on my website. The drop down menu shows more content when you hover on top of any category, but this additional content is hiding behind the flash file, the flash file is over lapping the drop down menu content. how can i fix this? ...

indexing depth animation, AS3

Hi, I have three balls. What do I do? They should look like they are being juggled when animated, but I'm not indexing them correctly. Please help. Thanks Edit Maybe I should just use an array. getChildAt sort of works, but it's not looping though perfectly. It moves one or two balls, not one by one... //JUGGLING ANIMATION WITH 3 BALL...

how to play an asx file in flash

i need to steam an .ask file form an remote site is it is possible to do in flash ...... .. ...

sequencial movieclip name in AS3

I'm pretty unexperienced with Action Script but searched the forums extensively to try and find a solution to this simple problem. I'm creating several copies of a MovieClip but I need them to have different names. // this array gets several cities var cities:Array = new Array( { nome:"london", pos_x:20, pos_y:10 }, { nome:"nyc", pos_x...

Flash plugin that allows users to create a PDF or image file

I am developing a ASP.NET web site where users will need to be able to create their own business cards. So, I'm looking for a tool (most likely Flash) that I can easily integrate into a web site and lets users add text and custom images to their cards and then create an image and/or PDF from their work. is there a plugin that does this?...

Mixing different audio files and exporting to mp3 in ActionScript 3

Hi all, i was wondering if it is possible to mix different audio files and export them into an mp3 file for the end user to download to his computer. Actually, I know it can be done because they do it in various sites (http://aviary.com/tools/Myna , looplabs , audiotool , remixgalaxy the last 3 ones are dot coms, but I can't post them b...

flex filereference and PHP upload 200mb in few parts

My web hosting PHP setting has a hard limit of 200mb for maximum upload size, is there any way to split a video file of 2GB size into 200mb each and upload then concat at server side? I'll be using either PHP or Flex for upload using HTTP protocol. No FTP. ...

Can you recommend any good book on flash mobile(lite) ?

I've googled lot but still don't find a book on this field, can you recommend ? ...

Why Flash not showing in IE

Hi i have created a simple menu in Flash. I have added the following code to my page and it works perfectly in Firefox but doesn t show in IE <embed height="50" width="540" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" salign="" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="false" menu...

How do you securely connect a flash application within an Ajax menu and keep the flash session when the Ajax menu is closed?

How do you securely connect a flash application within an Ajax menu - and keep the flash session when the Ajax menu is closed? Example, click the A-jax menu which slides open thus revealing a flash application - log into the flash app takes you do some other secure menus (it's connecting via secure connection) but when I close the a-jax...

Add symbol to stage without exporting for actionscript?

I'm making a game in flash, and I want to have a whole bunch of different rooms that I can make and delete with code. Ordinarily I'd just use something like: var room:Sprite = new room1(); game.main.addChild(room); ...but I'd have to export every room for actionscript. Is there a way to get them made just being symbols? If nothing els...

how do I use netstream.appendBytes() for http dynamic streaming?

I am trying to figure out how to use http dynamic streaming with flash 10.1 but I can't get the basic functions working. What is the syntax for using appendbytes with a video file? package com.player { import flash.display.Stage; import flash.net.NetConnection; import flash.net.NetStream; import flash.media.Video; import flash.display...

How do I recompile Flex 4 Framework RSLs?

Does anyone know how to recompile Adobe Flex 4 framework RSLs? I'm using the compiler directive -dump-config to get the build config file that the FlashBuilder IDE is using for compiling my application. I then pass that config file into the mxmlc compiler so I can build from the command-line. The results of the command-line build are ...

Runtime fonts not playing nice with fonts embedded in static text?

Curious if anyone has this problem: I save my (embedded) fonts in an external file (fonts.swf) that gets loaded at runtime. Pretty standard. I also use a bunch of UI artwork generated in the Flash IDE. Some of this artwork contains static textfields (thus, not proper TextFields that can change. Just frozen glyphs). Here's the problem...

Is there a way to grab a webpage with Actionscript??? I get a SecurityError...

I am trying to grab a webpage with actionscript, but keep getting this error (example trying to grab github.com): [SWF] /get-webpage.swf - 2,708 bytes after decompression Error: Request for resource at http://github.com by requestor from http://localhost:4567/get-webpage.swf is denied due to lack of policy file permissions. ...

Actionscript grid scale issue

Hello; I have a bit of a problem with actionscript 3.0 dynamic movieclip placement. The scenario is like this: I have a 16x16 grid generated by actionscript inside a movieclip. (let's name it gridContainer). The tiles of the grid should have constant height and width; it should not scale with its parent's height/width changes. Also, ...